Michigan classics day on BTN -- Open Thread

BTN is showing classic Michigan games all day. There are a lot of the usual suspects--'93 Rose Bowl, '97 MSU--but also the '85 South Carolina game and the spring game. Already aired: Trey Burke's steal-to-win against MSU this year. Currently on is the 2009 Notre Dame game.

My initial observation: Interesting that nobody has seen Johnny Manziel and Tate Forcier in the same place at the same time. I wonder why that is?

...And I wonder what last season would have been like if Daryl Stonum hadn't been a mess. Denard gets a game-breaking receiver that can bail him out of tricky spots, Devin never switches to receiver and is ready to step in against Nebraska, OSU and South Carolina have a harder time covering in the secondary...

My last semester at Michigan and the year Bo broke through and won the Rose Bowl. Butch Woolfolk, Johnny Wangs, AC, and the typical swarming linebacker strong defense. The 1980 ohio game was very exciting, but the usual low scoring afair with Michigan winning 9-3 with a big sack at midfield to seal the win.

Actually, that's not BTN choosing a bad MSU game, that's me. I have an unfortunate (bizarre) habit of transposing 90s years with 00s years. The game being aired is 2007, the Henne comeback in EL. I would enjoy the '97 game more, just for you-know-who's interception.

I'm actually interested in the SC game. I have definite memories of that season (I turned 6 that November) but I have no memory at all of the game in question. And that was a terrific Michigan team.

You're a year older than me so I don't have personal memories of that game either. But 4 weeks later was the first time I ever stepped foot in the big house. At 5, I had no idea what the rules of football were. I just enjoyed looking around to see 100,000 people, which was pretty sweet.

I'm glad to see the '85 game, for the sake of some variety FINALLY! I'm sure it costs a few bucks for the rights to many of our classic games, but man.... they show the same handful of games again and again and AGAIN. They advertise Michigan Thursday as if we're supposed to be excited - every game they're showing save the SC game has been broadcast 800 times by now.

At the very least, the BTN should be able to play any of their own broadcasts again without paying royalties to ABC, CBS, etc. I'd rather see a couple of our BTN games from last season than a game from a decade or two in the past that I've watched a dozen times already.

If you are able to do so (i.e., your provider participates), you can also watch the 1985 South Carolina-Michigan game here at BTN2Go (LINK to web page).

I have gotten as the end of the first quarter, and I had to chuckle at 110 total yards of offense for Michigan to the Gamecocks 17 yards of offense. Also, we had the ball save for about 3 minutes in the first quarter. If the second quarter is any indication, things began to go downhill for South Carolina from there.

What a play by Crable in the 07 state game. Fights through a double team to get a hand on Ringer and throws him backwards, gets off the ground, picks a perfect angle downfield, fights through a lead blocker to catch Ringer at the 5 after running 75 yards.

Now the Y2K Orange Bowl. If '97 is the peak of Carr's career, this is only a small step below it.

This is where I got tired of the "ESSSSS EEEE SEEEE SPEEEEEEEED" trope once and for all. And it is worth noting that, prior to the recent run of (almost certainly corrupt) SEC dominance, there was quite a bit of variation in power conferences. In this particular season both contestants of the SEC championship game lost to B1G Michigan teams, neither of which were even the conference champion.